Venture Beat reports that Google will quietly retire Alfred on July 19th. Alfred was billed as a personal assistant, similar to Siri, according to Forbes.
In 2011 Google acquired Clever Sense, Alfred’s developer, but it seems they let him languish. Alfred isn’t the first company purchase on which Google has stopped development, but instead of announcing Alred’s demise on the Google blog, a notice was inserted into the Alfred app. You can still download Alfred on the iTunes store, but he hasn’t been updated since May, 2012 and after yesterday, July 12th, he will be guiding you no longer.
[via VentureBeat and TechCrunch]
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